People

American Farmland Trust (Washington): Appointed Jerry Cosgrove, New York field director, to be Northeast field director, based in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.

American Near East Refugee Aid (Washington): Appointed Philip Davies, former assistant regional director for the Middle East and field-officer director in the West Bank and Gaza for Save the Children (Westport, Conn.), to be vice-president.

American Russian Youth Orchestra (New York): Appointed Sarah Seaver, sales coordinator for the client-advisory group at Sotheby’s (New York), to be deputy director.

American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (New York): Appointed Ida Cahill, vice-president of development and vice-president of the college foundation at Thomas Edison State College (Trenton, N.J.), to be director of major gifts and planned giving; Nina D’Orio, a public-relations consultant based in New York, to be director of foundation and corporate support; Peter B. Paris, director of public affairs at Porter Novelli International (New York), to be senior director of public affairs; and Joe E. Walton, a fund-raising consultant to the Alzheimer’s Association (Los Angeles), to be senior director of the Western regional office, based in Los Angeles.

American Symphony Orchestra (New York): Appointed Edythe M. Holbrook, executive director of the American Russian Youth Orchestra (New York), to be executive director. She will continue in her position at the American Russian Youth Orchestra.

Annenberg Institute for School Reform (Providence, R.I.): Appointed Ramon Cortines, executive director of the Pew Network on Standards Based Reform at Stanford U. (Palo Alto, Cal.) and a senior adviser to U.S. Secretary of Education Richard Riley, to be interim director. The institute is based at Brown U.

Association of American Colleges and Universities (Washington): Appointed Carol Geary Schneider, executive vice-president, to be president.

Boston Lyric Opera: Appointed Revah Anzaldua, director of marketing and communications at the Vancouver Opera (British Columbia), to be director of marketing, and Kathryn M. Partan, director of development at the Cincinnati Opera, to be director of development.

The Catalyst Institute (Chicago): Appointed Molly G. Bayley, a Washington-based consultant on emerging securities and futures markets, to be senior managing director. The Catalyst Institute is a non-profit think tank that focuses on financial markets and institutions.

CDC Foundation (Atlanta): Appointed Nicole B. Kruse, associate director of foundation and international relations at Emory U. (Atlanta), to be development officer. The CDC Foundation is a non-profit organization that supports the national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Center for a New American Dream (Takoma Park, Md.): Appointed Betsy Taylor, executive director of the Merck Family Fund (Takoma Park), to be executive director. The center works to reduce consumer and natural-resources consumption while sustaining the quality of life in America.

Clark Atlanta U.: Appointed Richard H. White, national director of the office of corporations and foundations at the College Fund/UNCF (Fairfax, Va.), to be vice-president for institutional advancement and university relations.

Computer Museum (Boston): Appointed Ellen Spear, director of the Massachusetts Cultural Facilities Project (Boston), to be director of external affairs.

Consortium for the Advancement of Private Higher Educa tion (Washington): Appointed Michelle D. Gilliard, associate director, to be executive director. CAPHE is an operating unit of the Council of Independent Colleges (Washington).

Consumer Health Foundation (Washington): Appointed Margaret O’Bryon, senior program officer at the Prince Charitable Trusts (Washington), to be president and chief executive officer.

Council of Independent Colleges (Washington): Appointed Kelly A. Sennewald, assistant to the president, to be membership coordinator.

Friends of the National Parks at Gettysburg (Pa.): Appointed Vickey Monrean, former development director at Greenpeace USA (Washington) to be executive director. She succeeds Victoria B. Greenlee, who recently retired.

Georgetown U. (Washington): Appointed Patrick J. McArdle, director of development programs, to be associate vice-president for alumni relations and executive secretary of the alumni association.

Glenmary Home Missioners (Cincinnati): Appointed Nestor A. Colon, donor-relations manager at the Marianist Mission (Dayton, Ohio), to be development director; B. Susan Davis, director of development and public relations at the Lancaster, Cal., public-school district, to be chief operating officer; and Michael Pirnat, branch manager at Quick & Reilly (Dayton, Ohio), to be planned-giving manager.

Heartland Alliance for Human Needs and Human Rights (Chicago): Appointed Daniel D. Drew, a lawyer at Tribler Orpett & Crone (Chicago), to be vice-president for finance and administration and general counsel.

Hillsborough Community College (Tampa, Fla.): Appointed John L. Huerta, Jr., chief executive officer of the Huerta Marketing Group (Tucson, Ariz.), to be vice-president for external affairs.

InterAction (Washington): Appointed Patricia T. Morris, gender specialist and project director at Clark Atlanta U.’s School of International Affairs and Development, to be gender and devel opment specialist for the Commission on the Advancement of Women.

Jersey Battered Women’s Service (Morris County, N.J.): Appointed Deborah Callaghan, executive director of Literacy Volunteers of America-Morris County (Morristown, N.J.), to be executive director.

Johnson & Wales U. (Providence, R.I.): Appointed Kristin Curry, development assistant at the Boy Scouts of America-Narragansett Council (R.I.), to be director of publications.

Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies (Washington): Appointed Denise L. Dugas, vice-president of sales and marketing at Our World News (Washington), to be vice-president for communications and marketing.

Kentucky Wesleyan College (Owensboro): Appointed Vonda Marrow, director of alumni relations at Adrian College (Mich.), to be director of gift planning, and Ron McCracken, campaign director at United Way of the Ohio Valley (Owensboro), to be director of development.

Kettering U. (Flint, Mich.): Appointed Larry C. Johnson, senior director of development at the State U. of New York at Buffalo, to be vice-president for university advancement. GMI Engineering and Management Institute became Kettering U. on January 1.

Lions Clubs International (Oak Brook, Ill.): Appointed Win Hamilton, director of foundation and external affairs at the American Dietetic Association (Chicago), to be executive administrator.

Louisiana State U. (Baton Rouge): Appointed Gene C. Sands, former executive director of public affairs at Saint John’s U. (Collegeville, Minn.) and the College of Saint Benedict (St. Joseph, Minn.), to be executive director of university relations.

Maryland Public Television (Owings Mills): Appointed Theresa T. Michel, executive director of the Frederick Arts Council (Md.), to be director of foundation support.

Meredith College (Raleigh, N.C.): Appointed Jim Brown, executive vice-president of Centura Bank (Raleigh), to be director of corporate and major gifts.

Michigan State U. (East Lansing): Appointed Lisa M. Rud gers, director of news and communication at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, N.Y.), to be assistant vice-president for university relations and director of public relations.

Montefiore Medical Center (Bronx, N.Y.): Appointed Susan J. Kind, senior director of development at New York U.’s Tisch School of the Arts, to be vice-president for development.

National Neighborhood Coalition (Washington): Appointed Betty Weiss, director of communications and research at the National Community Action Foundation (Washington), to be executive director.

Niagara U. (N.Y.): Appointed David A. Cristantello, director of development and administration at the Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute (Buffalo, N.Y.), to be director of development.

North Dakota State U. (Fargo): Appointed Don Morton, associate director of athletics, to be assistant to the president and director of university relations.

Northwestern College (St. Paul): Appointed Gifford Myers, acting president of the Northwestern Foundation, to be president of the foundation.

Opportunity International Network (Oakbrook, Ill.): Appointed Larry Reed, vice-president at Opportunity International-US (Oakbrook, Ill.), to be managing director.

Piedmont College (Demorest, Ga.): Appointed Robert W. Muldoon, Jr., director of development at Carson-Newman College (Jefferson City, Tenn.), to be vice-president for institutional advancement.

Polytechnic U. (Brooklyn, N.Y.): Appointed Rodney Miller, director of development at Queensland U. of Technology (Australia), to be executive director for development.

RAND (Santa Monica, Cal.): Appointed Robert Brook, director of the health program, to also be a vice-president.

Regent U. (Virginia Beach): Appointed Carrie Gess, manager of special projects, to be director of development.

Renaissance Project Foundation (Elmsford, N.Y.): Appointed Roman N. Lucky, former executive director of the Meridia Health Foundation (Cleveland), to be executive vice-president. The Renaissance Project provides substance-abuse services throughout Westchester County, N.Y.

Sam Houston State U. (Huntsville, Tex.): Appointed Gary A. Bouse, director of corporate and foundation relations at Texas Tech U. (Lubbock), to be executive director of advancement.

San Jose State U. (Cal.): Appointed Carol Menaker, director of communications in the office of public affairs at U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Urbana), to be director of communications.

South Carolina State U. (Or angeburg): Appointed Anthony C. Thompson, former vice-president for development and planning at the Florida Education Fund (Tampa), to be vice-president for institutional advancement.

Spalding U. (Louisville, Ky.): Appointed Jeffrey L. Ashley, director of major gifts at U. of Louisville, to be vice-president for university advancement.

St. Bonaventure U. (N.Y.): Appointed Dean Bruno, associate vice-president for university advancement at the California Polytechnic State U. at San Luis Obispo, to be vice-president for university advancement.

St. Olaf College (Northfield, Minn.): Appointed Gordon D. Soenksen, former vice-president for institutional advancement at Guilford College (Greensboro, N.C.), to be vice-president for advancement.

State U. of New York at Stony Brook: Appointed Ted Klubinski, director of annual giving at the U. of Southern California (Los Angeles), to be director of annual giving.

Syracuse U. (N.Y.): Appointed Mark A. Owczarski, former director of college relations at Guilford College (Greensboro, N.C.), to be director of internal communications.

U. of Memphis: Appointed Kevin Roper, president of the Methodist Hospital Foundation (Memphis), to be vice-president for advancement.

U. of Minnesota Law School (Minneapolis): Appointed Martha Martin, director of corporate and foundation relations at Wright State U. (Dayton, Ohio), to be director of development.

U. of North Carolina at Charlotte: Appointed Morgan G. Roseborough, Jr., former director of alumni services at the U.S. Military Academy (West Point, N.Y.), to be director of alumni affairs.

U. of St. Thomas (St. Paul): Appointed Richard J. Weiland, director of major gifts, to be executive director of development.

United Way of Allegheny County (Pittsburgh): Appointed Betty E. Havryluk, vice-president of marketing at the St. Francis Health System (Pittsburgh), to be vice-president for marketing and communications.

Volunteers of America (Alexandria, Va.): Appointed Ron Field, vice-president of public policy at Family Service America (Milwaukee), to be vice-president of pub lic policy, and James H. Rogers, president and chief executive of ficer of the Roper CareAlliance (Charleston, S.C.), a non-profit health-care system, to be president and chief executive of Volunteers of America National Services, the organization’s housing and health-care division.

Whitman College (Walla Walla, Wash.): Appointed Stephen E. Becker, vice-president for university relations at U. of the South (Sewanee, Tenn.), to be vice-president for development and college relations, effective in March.

Wilderness Inquiry (Minneapolis): Appointed Bill Lindberg, national manager of the WESTLAW academic program at West Publishing Company (St. Paul), to be development director, and Sarah Milligan-Toffler, development director, to be associate director. W.I. conducts outdoor adventures for mixed groups of disabled and non-disabled youths and adults.

Williams College (Williamstown, Mass.): Appointed Bruce H. Begin, director of development at Burke Mountain Academy (East Burke, Vt.), to be director of 50th-reunion programs; David B. Dewey, director of development and alumni relations at the Holderness School (Plymouth, N.H.), to be associate director of capital giving; Sally C. Holland, director of capital giving, to be director of development; Beth B. Raffeld, director of development, to be director of principal gifts; and John H. Skavlem, associate director of capital giving and assistant director of development, to be director of 25th-reunion programs.

Wittenberg U. (Springfield, Ohio): Appointed Jim Dexter, assistant director of public relations at U. of Cincinnati, to be director of public relations.

WOSU (Columbus, Ohio): Appointed Kerri Allen, former executive director of the Hospice of Knox County (Mount Vernon, Ohio), to be development director.

Yeshiva U. (New York): Appointed Hedy Shulman, former director of public relations at American Friends of Bar-Ilan U. (New York), to be director of media relations.

GRANT MAKERS

Arlington Health Foundation (Va.): Appointed Leonard Berman, program officer for criminal justice and disadvantaged youth at the Public Welfare Foundation (Washington), to be a consultant.

Battle Creek Community Foundation (Mich.): Appointed Brenda L. Hunt, executive vice-president and chief operating officer, to be president and chief executive officer, effective April 1. She will succeed Peter J. Christ, who will continue to serve the foundation as a part-time consultant.

Community Foundation for Greater New Haven (Conn.): Appointed Richard E. Collins, controller at the Science Park Development Corporation (New Haven), to be accounting and operations officer.

Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation (Morristown, N.J.): Announced the retirement of Scott McVay, executive director, effective at the end of this year. He has served in that position since 1976, when the foundation was created through a bequest from Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge.

Doris Duke Charitable Foundation (New York): Appointed Bruce W. Morris, chief financial officer at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (New York), to be director of finance.

Ford Foundation (New York): Appointed Hans-Goran G. Antlov, director of the Centre for East and Southeast Asian Studies at Gothenburg U. (Sweden), to be program officer in Jakarta, Indonesia; Lucille C. Atkin, program officer, to be senior program officer in Mexico City; Fateh S. Azzam, program officer in Lagos, Nigeria, to be program officer in Cairo; Charles R. Bailey, representative for Eastern and Southern Africa, based in Nairobi, Kenya, to be representative for Vietnam and Thailand, based in Hanoi, Vietnam; Srilatha Batliwala, program director at Mahila Samakhya Kamataka (India), to be program officer for the governance and civil-society unit of the peace and social-justice program; Constance Hall Buchanan, associate dean and director of women’s studies at the Harvard U. Divinity School (Cambridge, Mass.), to be program officer for the education, knowledge, and religion unit of the education, media, arts, and culture program; David Chiel, acting representative in Dhaka, Bangladesh, to be assistant representative and program officer for South Africa and Namibia, based in Windhoek, Namibia; Fred A. Davie, Jr., deputy borough president in the Office of the Manhattan Borough President of the City of New York, to be program officer for the community- and resource-development unit of the asset-building and community-development program; Virginia Davis Floyd, director of the Family Health Branch of Maternal and Child Health at the Georgia Department of Human Resources, Division of Public Health (Atlanta), to be director of the human-development and reproductive-health unit of the asset-building and community-development program; Alison France, a staff editor at The New York Times, to be associate editor in the office of communications; Susan D. Hairston, director of finance and administration at the Renaissance Community Development Corporation (New Brunswick, N.J.), to be senior grants administrator for the asset-building and community-development program; Steven W. Lawry, assistant representative and program officer for South Africa and Namibia, based in Windhoek, Namibia, to be representative for the Middle East and North Africa, based in Cairo; Michael Lipsky, program officer, to be senior program officer in the governance and civil-society unit of the peace and social-justice program; Ronald B. Mincy, program officer, to be senior program officer in the human-development and reproductive-health unit of the asset- building and community-development program; Katharine K. Pearson, director of the East Tennessee Foundation (Knoxville), to be representative for Eastern and Southern Africa, based in Nairobi, Kenya; Janice Petrovich, deputy director, to be director of the education, knowledge, and religion unit of the education, media, arts, and culture program; Thomas M. Quinn, acting deputy director, to be deputy director of the office of communications; S. A. Gowher Rizvi, deputy director of the governance and civil-society unit of the peace and social-justice program, to be representative for India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka, based in New Delhi; and Suzanne E. Siskel, assistant representative and program officer in Jakarta, Indonesia, to be representative for the Philippines, based in Manila.

The Freedom Forum (Arlington, Va.): Appointed Kathy Wilhelm, a former Associated Press correspondent and bureau chief in Asia, to be director of the Asian Center in Hong Kong.

Johnson Foundation (Racine, Wis.): Carla R. Freeman, program officer for the civil- and civic-community program, has left the foundation to pursue academic interests. She is a doctoral candidate in the China-studies program at the Johns Hopkins U. School of Advanced International Studies (Washington).

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (Princeton, N.J.): Appointed Debra Joy Perez, a recent recipient of a master’s degree in public administration from the City U. of New York Bernard M. Baruch College and former special assistant to Nelson Diaz, general counsel at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (Washington), to be deputy director of New Jersey Health Initiatives.

Public Welfare Foundation (Washington): Appointed Neil A. Stanley, interim program officer, to be program officer for criminal justice and disadvantaged youth.

Saint Paul Foundation: Appointed Carol R. Olson, program associate, to be a program officer.

BOARD MEMBERS AND OFFICERS

Edyth Bush Charitable Foundation (Winter Park, Fla.): Elected John Lord, president of NationsBank Central Florida (Orlando), to the Board of Directors.

Foellinger Foundation (Fort Wayne, Ind.): Elected Mary F. Barksdale, manager of human resources at Navistar International Transportation Corporation (Fort Wayne), to the Board of Directors.

The Freedom Forum (Arlington, Va.): Elected Michael Gartner, editor and co-owner of The Daily Tribune (Ames, Iowa), to the First Amendment Center Board of Trustees; Will Norton, Jr., dean of the College of Journalism and Mass Communications at the U. of Nebraska at Lincoln, to the Freedom Forum Board of Trustees; Tim Russert, Washington bureau chief of NBC News and host of its show Meet the Press, to the Newseum Board of Trustees; and Judy Woodruff, prime anchor and senior correspondent at the Cable News Network (Atlanta), to the Newseum Board of Trustees.

Jewish National Fund-Keren Kayemeth Leisrael (Jerusalem): Elected Shlomo Gravetz, chairman of the Jewish Agency’s Youth and Hechalutz Department (Jerusalem), to be chairman; Yehiel Leket, director of the Jewish Agency’s Department for Development and Settlement and chairman of its Youth Aliya institutions (Jerusalem), to be co-chairman; and Moshe Rivlin, chairman, to be president. K.K.L. is the official forestation and land-reclamation agency in Israel.

Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Los Angeles): Elected Walter L. Weisman, former chairman and chief executive officer of American Medical International (Los Angeles), to be chair of the Board of Trustees, effective July 1.

Menil Foundation (Houston): Elected Louisa Stude Sarofim, a board member at the foundation and a former president of the Brown Foundation (Houston), to be president of the board.

Mental Health Association in Delaware (Wilmington): Elected Marcilee Bierlein, retired human-resources director at Comcast (Wilmington), to be president.

Meridian International Center (Washington): Elected Ardon B. Judd, vice-president and Washington counsel at Dresser Industries (Dallas), based in Washington, to be chairman of the Board of Trustees.

Milwaukee Foundation: Elected Ned W. Bechthold, president and chief executive officer of Payne & Dolan (Waukesha, Wis.), to the Board of Directors.

Mothers Against Drunk Driving (Irving, Tex.): Elected Karolyn Nunnallee, a board member, to be national president.

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) (Baltimore): Myrlie Evers-Williams has announced that she will not seek re-election as chairman of the Board of Directors, a post she has held since February 1995. She plans to establish a think tank on civil rights to be named for her late husband, the slain civil-rights leader Medgar Evers. She will remain a member of the board through February 1999.

Peninsula Community Foundation (San Mateo, Cal.): Elected Thomas E. Bailard, chairman and chief executive officer of Bailard, Biehl and Kaiser (Foster City, Cal.), a money-management and investment advisory firm, to be chair of the Board of Directors.

Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Foundation (Jeffersonville, Ind.): Elected Robert V. Martz, a retired senior pastor and member of the Presbytery of the Grand Canyon (Ariz.), to be chair of the Board of Trustees.

Rhode Island Foundation (Providence): Elected Florence K. Murray, a retired justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court, and Walter R. Stone, a partner in the law firm of Adler Pollock & Sheehan (Providence), to the Board of Directors.

CONSULTANTS AND OTHERS

Alexander O’Neill Haas & Martin (Atlanta): Appointed Megan S. Lee, program coordinator at the Muscular Dystrophy Association-Greater Georgia Chapter (Atlanta), to be a campaign coordinator.

Brody & Weiser (Branford, Conn.): Appointed Michael E. Burns, director of non-profit services, to be a partner.

The Conservation Company (Philadelphia): Appointed Bettina Yaffe Hoerlin, executive director of the school-readiness project for the Mayor’s Cabinet on Children and Families (Philadelphia), to be a senior consultant.

Development Resource Group (New York and Washington): Appointed David B. Cheng, senior research associate, to be managing director, and Steven Noble, former senior director of the Mandel Executive Development Program at the Council of Jewish Federations (New York), to be vice-president for executive search and management consulting.

Grizzard (Atlanta): Appointed Michael Morris, U.S. direct-marketing program coordinator at World Vision (Seattle), to be account supervisor in Los Angeles.

Killion, McCabe & Associates (Dallas): Appointed Rick Dunham, a senior vice-president and president of KMC Media, to be president, and Tom McCabe, chairman, to be chairman and chief executive officer. This transition occurs as Jim Killion, chief creative officer and chief executive officer, is leaving after 13 years at this fund-raising and communications firm that works primarily with Christian organizations.

SparrowHawk Consulting Company (Olympia, Wash.): Appointed Geoff Corbin, senior director of marketing and community relations at Washington Special Olympics (Seattle), to be vice-president.

West Glen Communications (New York): Appointed Suzanne Beauregard, public-relations director at Rainoldi, Kerzner, Radcliffe (now KPR West) (San Francisco), to be account director in its new San Francisco office